The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-07
LIFE IN VIENNA.


a Jsrty Description of Scenes n the Inter
esting Austrian Capital.
From the Buffalo News
Women here carry hods and mix NOR.
tar. Peculiar class. From the provinces.
Wear long boots TO the knee. Short skirts
to the boots. Practical dress. But not
ornamental. Seven different costumes
seen daily on the streets. Laborers at
noon lie down and sleep on the pavements.
Ditto in the parks on the grass. Both sexes
seen lying side by side. No 'kesp off the
grass at every turning. Polish Jew fire.
quent. In black gowns reaching to heels,
high hats and long corkscreH curls. Look
Ike Othello. Big dogs drawing hand carts.
Street cars won't stop for you. OILY at
certain places. Indicated By a signpost
on track. The tub the universal vessel to
carry things in. oval shape. One stave
longer than the rest. So it
can be bound on the carriers
back. Carries all the water up the
six or seven pairs of stone stairs in the
Vienna houses. Clean clothes ditto for
wash. Separate shops for brandy, beer
and wine. Peasant on a spree carries
green twig stuck in his hat-band to indi-
cate to the Vienna public his present men,
tai and moral condition. Hacks hung
low on the wheels. Drivers in uniforms.
Everything is in uniform here. Fares low.
Leopolstadt. Suburban villages five or
six miles distant. Emperor and Empress
are frequently seen driving on the streets.
No fuss all hats go off as they go By.
Soldiers everywhere; sentries ditto, in
chronic condition of saluting officers.
Fleas abundant. Everybody eats at the
restaurant, Vienna is all restaurant on
the ground floor. Little home cooking is
done. MelsDge ana rolls are the uuiver-
sal Ifakfast. Melange is half coffee
and half bot IN TX, always brought you In
tall tumbler with a big table spoon. Liv-
ing here is very public. If you hire a
room the chances are that you must pass
through somebody's bedroom TO get to it,
or have soma enc pass through yours. Fee
male help, indifferent or oblivious TO gen.
tlenen lo6gers come right 10 all hours
and without knocking, when on duty.
Stoves are like monuments nine feet
high, covered with porcelain. The fur
nsce holes about two quarts OF coal. The
rest is monument. Handsome men, good
shapes, full chests, fine oass voices.
A pleasure to sit IN rail vay sta
tons and hear the officials in
charge call the traius. HANDSOME women
ditto. Egerybody out on the street and
shopping by s or 9 in the morning. Nap
at noon. Gardens full of families dining
in open air at p. m. They go it till 8.
Music, flowers, ststuary all about. Eating
not done at gulp. More happiness to the
square yard. Newspapers small. Outside
world disposed of in about twenty lines.
Lots OF small comic illustrated papers.
pagod6s. Girl inside. No room for more.
Sells lemonade, orsngeade, soda water, and
other light foggy fluid. People here al
ways swallowing something.
Elevator at hotel. Big f1ss over it. Two
men in uniform to run it. Pace, mile an
hour. Beds all single. Everybody seems
to sleep single here. One more bed on top
of bed quilt. Very light, full of feathers,
in green silk bag.
Barracks everywhere. Six stories. Fall
OF soldiers. Soldiers everywhere. Drill
ing everywhere. Drumming every where.
footing everywhere. Soldiers marching
past hotel at in the morning. Always
getting ready to kill somebody. Same al
over Europe. Never out OF sight of a bay
oDet. Nations here ere awfully afraid of
each other. Singular pumps Very tall.
Long, crooked, iron handle. Reach to the
| ground. Tobacco shops all run by Govern
ment. Keep stamps also. Invariable
sign over door *. k" king and Kaiser).
The Emperor does all the tobacco business.
| Not much tobacco in their cigars.
! Washed out. Prices of groceries and dry
/ goods always marked on article in shop
| windows. Helps one to learn the lam
gusge. Can read and translate as you
\ walk.
Cultivated shade trees lay over anything
in America. SIX rows, full grown in sons
| streets, with walks underneath. Foun-
/ tains, benches everywhere. Business
streets all shaded, not bare to sun like
Broadway or Ninth avenue. Bath houses
five stories high. Everybody here really
washes by the bath and not By the bed
room washbasin. Went 10 one. GIrl
cashier. Took my money. Turned me
over to another girl. Black eyed. Good
| looking. Went in with me. Turned on
water hot and cold. Both of rs waited for
the tub to fill up. Wondered IL She d
leave. Strange country. Novel customs.
Tub fills up. Girl leaves. Examine door.
No lock. Took Of collar. Girl bursts in
again. Brought more towels. Aud then
aprons. Wondered what they were for.
Found out. Inquired OF the girl,
What do you suppose? To put on
| one behind, the other before, and sic
still in awhile. After. using hot water, the
| girl came back to turn on the cold No
| handling of water by customer in Wen
nese bath. Girls must do it. No such
| place as Vienna known in Austria. Aus.
TRAN name, Wien. From the biz of river
running through it. Danubs river in
rear of city. Timber rats always passing.
Miles and miles of cultivated pine forests
| in Austria. Pass through them by rail. No
underbrush. Trees tall aud straight, by
tens of thousands.